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Relating to the Quechua or their language.

‘Most of the inhabitants are native Quechua Indians, descendants of the people who built the magnificent Inca buildings, the foundations of which still support the city and are now topped with Spanish colonial-era buildings.’

‘The gas export proposal may have also stirred racial fault lines separating the Andean population - mostly Aymara and Quechua Indians - from the minority of whites and mixed whites who have historically held Bolivian wheels of power.’

‘Their Aymara and Quechua roots go back to the Inca Empire that was conquered by the Spanish conquistadors 500 years ago.’

‘South America in pre-Hispanic times was dominated by the Inca culture, with a tendency to expand into the Inca Empire (or Tahuantinsuyo in the Quichua language).’

‘Whenever she pulls it out, Quechua women descend on Muller and her spindle, each taking turns showing her how to properly transform her pile of fleece into a ball of yarn.’

‘Others are Aymara and Quechua Indians forced off their lands by the crisis in traditional small-scale farming.’

‘My companions will be two Quechua Indians, a 66-year-old man and his nephew, who will herd the llamas to a distant valley where the older man, Irineo, will barter the salt for grain and produce.’

‘The march through central Lima lasted several hours and included workers, Aymara and Quechua Indians, peasants and students.’

‘Many Jivaro now also speak the Quechua language, which is spoken throughout the Andes region.’

‘Having made their point, they returned to join thousands in the streets dancing to traditional Quechua music for five hours.’

‘Because of large migration within the country, Aymara and Quechua speakers are also found throughout the major urban centers of Peru.’

‘In fact, the plant is sacred to the Aymara and Quechua people who are indigenous to the Andes.’

‘The highland Andean Quechua people consider the Milky Way to be a giant river, and accordingly, the surrounding constellations include animals like llamas, and different intensity star clusters form clouds.’

‘I decided to hitchhike my way toward it, and so in the first light I hopped into the bed of a dusty truck along with a group of Quechua farmers clad in pointed woolen caps and bright woolen sarapes.’

‘When the Inca conquered Ecuador in the fifteenth century, they introduced the Quechua language (which Rosa speaks at home) and imposed a tax system in which payments were made in human labor.’

‘C. baccatum varieties are usually called aji and C. pubescens is known as rocoto from the name of the pepper in the Quechua language of the Inca.’

‘The coca leaf, considered sacred in Quechua culture, has many healing properties, one of them being the reduction of nausea and headache from altitude sickness.’

‘Entre Culturas, their flagship ‘edutainment’ program, offers everything from Quechua music videos to history lessons on Amazon-based tribes to Aymara-language cartoons.’

‘In the film, the travellers meet Quechua Indians, miners, Communists on the run, and Guevara learns about power.’